Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Take Time To……… by Amanda Southern

I have been creating again on one of the MDF substrates from
That’s Crafty! and again I have used the largest MDF tag.

Here’s what I did:

Starting
with the large MDF tag I added texture paste through a section of the That’s
Crafty! 8”x 8” clock stencil. When the paste was dry I began an experiment with Distress Oxides, I knew they worked well on dark card but wondered what they
would look like added directly onto the MDF. I dragged some of the colours
across my craft mat and spritzed with water, I then dragged the MDF through the Distress ink, dried with a heatgun and then dragged again and dried, this I
repeated several times to build up the colour, and the oxidised effect.

I then
sanded back some of the texture paste to remove some of the colour. Over a
darker surface I love how the oxidising stands out. I have added some Distress
inks around the clock face to add some shade.

I have
kept this quite simple in order to not cover up either the clock of the Distress Oxides and simply added a small bunch of flowers. The daisies were
stamped and coloured with Distress Oxides using a water brush and fussy cut out
and added to the tag.

I added
the sentiment by stamping it out using a small alphabet stamp on some card that
I had coloured with Distress Oxides and Distress Ink.